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>>JimDab+(OP)
I don’t quite buy your Cyberpunk utopia where the Megacorp finally rids us of those pesky ethics qualms (or ”shackles“, as you phrased it.) Microsoft can now proceed without the guidance of a council that actually has humanities interests in mind, not only those of Microsoft shareholders. I don’t know whether all that caution will turn out to have been necessary, but I guess we’re just gleefully heading into whatever lies ahead without any concern whatsoever, and learn it the hard way.

It’s a bit tragic that Ilya and company achieved the exact opposite of what they intended apparently, by driving those they attempted to slow down into the arms of people with more money and less morals. Well.

>>9dev+w9
You might notice that Microsoft shareholders are also part of humanity and destroying humanity would be highly detrimental to Microsoft's profits, so maybe their interests are not as misaligned as you think.

I am always bemused by how people assume any corporate interest is automatically a cartoon supervillain who wants to destroy the entire world just because.

>>imgabe+fb
The mega rich have been building bunkers and preparing for the downfall of humanity for a long time now. Look around and you'll notice that greed wins out over everything else. We're surrounded by companies doing nothing or only small token gestures to protect humanity or the world we live in and instead focusing on getting rich, because getting rich is exactly why people become shareholders. Don't rely on those guys to save the world, it'll be the boring committees that are more likely to do that.

>>altacc+hc
Why would even the people employed in those bunkers listen to some billionaire after the world collapses? At that point there's no one to enforce your ownership of the mega bunker, unlike the government from before. And all the paper money is worthless of course.

>>cherry+cl
Very true. Triangle of Sadness was a good movie kind of about this.

When the shit hits the fan the guy in charge of the bunker is going to be the one who knows how to clean off the fan and get the air filtration system running again.

>>imgabe+5q
.. or the guy willing to violence. shorter movie but equally probable.

>>cyanyd+qF
Violence can only get you so far. Sure, maybe the guy who knows how to get food will get you some food if you threaten to kill him. But if he refuses, and you do kill him, then what? You still don't know how to get food for yourself.

>>imgabe+sG
people in the violence frame aren't doing the long term thing. but we absolutely know they exist and in no scenario can you be assured they're not in that position.

it's gambling, pure and simple.

>>cyanyd+xH
Yeah, people are smart though. Like if you’re good at getting food you find the person who’s best at violence and promise to get them plenty of food if they protect you from the other violent people. Maybe you divide up the work among the good at food getting people and the good at violence people and pretty soon you got yourself a little society going.